Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development

The topics discussed by researchers in the current issue concern English language teaching and learning, foreign language teacher education and teacher professional development, the beliefs of preservice teachers, and the perceptions and identities of students of English. The featured articles touch on language education research in different fields: English as a foreign language (EFL), teacher education and the research process itself, the assessment of language competences and the training needs to do so, materials development, English as a medium of instruction, and culture as an important issue in communication. These topics occur across the different educational levels (elementary, secondary, and tertiary) with undergraduate preservice teachers, in-service teachers, and EFL learners as the main actors.